Dr Sarah McKeagney
@mckeagns.bsky.social
Medieval church court document lover | Medieval church court document abbreviation hater | postdoctoral fellow
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[monster truck announcer voice]
Early.
Modern.
Bodies.
In November 2025 get your grubby hands on the freshest and coolest scholarship from yours truly ("Vagrant Bodies") and a frankly much more impressive range of other scholars.
Straight out in very affordable Paperback! Years in the making.
Early.
Modern.
Bodies.
In November 2025 get your grubby hands on the freshest and coolest scholarship from yours truly ("Vagrant Bodies") and a frankly much more impressive range of other scholars.
Straight out in very affordable Paperback! Years in the making.
Early Modern Bodies
Early Modern Bodies is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to a variety of different approaches to and perspectives on bodies in the early modern period, circa 1500–1750.
The collection guides re...
www.routledge.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
[monster truck announcer voice]
Early.
Modern.
Bodies.
In November 2025 get your grubby hands on the freshest and coolest scholarship from yours truly ("Vagrant Bodies") and a frankly much more impressive range of other scholars.
Straight out in very affordable Paperback! Years in the making.
Early.
Modern.
Bodies.
In November 2025 get your grubby hands on the freshest and coolest scholarship from yours truly ("Vagrant Bodies") and a frankly much more impressive range of other scholars.
Straight out in very affordable Paperback! Years in the making.
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Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Call for Papers! Fissures: Gender and Political Crisis #medievalsky #Fissures2026
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
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The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
medievalartresearch.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
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Published today: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Published today: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Reposted by Dr Sarah McKeagney
Reposted by Dr Sarah McKeagney
CCASNC will return on 21 February 2026! We hope to see you there!
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
CCASNC will return on 21 February 2026! We hope to see you there!
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“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.
phys.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
"You'll know the value of a good reputation," Moss said drily, "when you've lost it. 'Tisn't everything. But it's hard to fill the place of."
Tehanu, my beloved.
Tehanu, my beloved.
October 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"You'll know the value of a good reputation," Moss said drily, "when you've lost it. 'Tisn't everything. But it's hard to fill the place of."
Tehanu, my beloved.
Tehanu, my beloved.
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Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!
October 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!
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Pinch, punch, it's the first of the month. And here's your medieval Labour of the Month, courtesy of a 13th century psalter:
Treading grapes is thirsty work in October.
#MedievalCalendar
Bodleian Library MS. Add. A. 46; Calendar from a Psalter; 13th century, third quarter: f.5v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
#MedievalCalendar
Bodleian Library MS. Add. A. 46; Calendar from a Psalter; 13th century, third quarter: f.5v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Pinch, punch, it's the first of the month. And here's your medieval Labour of the Month, courtesy of a 13th century psalter:
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It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis
Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
nah
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Fantastic piece on a fascinating aspect of early Irish law, by my former PhD student and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social graduate, Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, who is now a postdoc at @scs-dias.bsky.social
#MedievalSky
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
#MedievalSky
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland
Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery
www.rte.ie
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Fantastic piece on a fascinating aspect of early Irish law, by my former PhD student and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social graduate, Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, who is now a postdoc at @scs-dias.bsky.social
#MedievalSky
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
#MedievalSky
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
Oh hiya! Looking forward to spending the year writing about church courts, litigation and debt 🫡🎉
Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Oh hiya! Looking forward to spending the year writing about church courts, litigation and debt 🫡🎉
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@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!
SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800
ies.sas.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!
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The quickest way to finish an article is to start it. It also helps if you can stay away from social media, tv and the internet. And your cell phone. And other people. You should also fight urges to clean and organise spaces, and to cook big meals.
In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.
In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.
September 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The quickest way to finish an article is to start it. It also helps if you can stay away from social media, tv and the internet. And your cell phone. And other people. You should also fight urges to clean and organise spaces, and to cook big meals.
In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.
In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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This is a problem.
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is a problem.
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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
www.independent.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
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The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖
Now available online! 👇📻
newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...
@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Now available online! 👇📻
newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...
@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖
Now available online! 👇📻
newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...
@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
Now available online! 👇📻
newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...
@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
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Re last repost about teaching women's history in UK schools, it's extra frustrating because there are resources out there to tell much more interesting stories within the curriculum.
Full disclosure, I wrote this one: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
Full disclosure, I wrote this one: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
September 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Re last repost about teaching women's history in UK schools, it's extra frustrating because there are resources out there to tell much more interesting stories within the curriculum.
Full disclosure, I wrote this one: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
Full disclosure, I wrote this one: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
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Also, my monograph 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' is about 50% off now, for algorithmically mysterious reasons. www.amazon.com/Making-Custo...
The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England
The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England [Cuenca, Esther Liberman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England
www.amazon.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Also, my monograph 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' is about 50% off now, for algorithmically mysterious reasons. www.amazon.com/Making-Custo...
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Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
#earlymodern #economic #history
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
#earlymodern #economic #history